Other litigants are experiencing the same treatment. The IRS is
fighting Judicial Watch in a suit over document requests. Government
lawyers are hamstringing a suit against the IRS brought by Z Street, a
pro-Israel nonprofit—as described last month in an op-ed on these pages.

It’d be one thing if the plaintiffs were
demanding a billion-dollar payout, but they aren’t. Their main request
is that the IRS come clean on what happened, and the government is
resisting with all its power.The real question iswhy the Justice
Department is even fighting this suit, when it ought to be leading a
renewed investigation into what happened and how it got covered up.

This
stonewalling cannot be laid solely at the feet of IRS Commissioner
John Koskinen,
another Obama appointee who bizarrely remains in his post. The
IRS, as the client, no doubt is calling many of the legal shots. But the
Justice Department has the authority in important cases to make the
ultimate judgment call on how the government will handle the litigation.

But Mr. Trump was hired to impose exactly that sort
of accountability. If he’s going to get rapped for dramatic moves, it
might as well be for doing something that serves justice."
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Added: Not mentioned in above article, it wasn't Democrats who needed to silence Tea Party groups, it was the Establishment Republicans (de factoDemocrats).Tea Party groups weren't about to peel away many democrat votes or gain ascendancy on the left. 4 articles follow: NPR (2012), NY Times (2012), Angelo Codevilla (2013), Lester Jackson (2015):

"In a paradoxical way, Obama's re-election victory coupled withcongressional Democrats adding to their numbers may have helped Boehner.
Some of those wins came at the expense of the Tea Party, the
conservative movement whose affiliated House members have been very
willing to stand up to Boehner.

In recent weeks, Boehner...has gotten his entire leadership team to sign his tax-raising,
fiscal-cliff counteroffer....

"That was a message that the [Republican] conference as a whole has read the tea leaves,"Feehery wrote in a blog post in which he also ticked off other indicators of Boehner's strength."...Despite complaints from conservative activists and bloggers, however, Boehner remains the most powerful Republican in Washington.".................

The UniParty, the party of government, the
party of Ins, continues to consist of the same people. The Outs are
always the same people too: American conservatives. They don’t have a
party.

Whatever differences exist within the Uniparty, between Republican
John Boehner and Democrat Nancy Pelosi, between Republican Mitch
McConnell and Democrat Harry Reid, get worked out behind closed doors.
Those differences are narrow....

"Boehner,
who has grappled with dissent from the Tea Party wing since he took the
Speaker's gavel in 2011, has seen opposition to his reign grow this
year, even as he commands the largest GOP majority since the Hoover
administration."

Even worse, this is not a just Speaker with an “R” after his name who does the bidding of Democrats.This is the de facto
Democrat Speaker, using the Pelosi-type high-handed and duplicitous
tactics to further policies of the Democrats. Indeed, Pelosi actively collaborated with Boehner on the latest betrayal of Republican voters.

In
addition, 182 of the 257 House votes for the surrender were provided by
Democrats. That’s 71% of the total --an astounding 100% of voting
Democrats! When a recorded vote on one of the major issues of the last
election gives a Speaker 71% support from the opposition party and a
mere 29% from his own, just which party does he lead? Does he lead at
all, or is he led by the nose?After all, Boehner did the bidding of
every single ecstatic voting Democrat. Pelosi “proudly” celebrated!

We
have come a long way from the days of House Republican Speaker Dennis
Hastert, who promised to prevent a vote any matter opposed by a majority
of his caucus, a promise renewed
by Boehner himself. According to Hastert:

One reading Lillis might be tempted to feel sorry for Boehner. Poor John Boehner. Those whose votes resulted in his becoming Republican Speaker won’t even stay silent while he defies their wishes, views, and interestsby transmogrifying himself into leader of the Democrats.

Before shedding too many tears, however, remember that this is the same man who, when possible, ruthlessly disciplinesRepublicans
who defy his wishes, stripping them of chairmanships and exiling them
to House Siberia.

This is the same man who not only broke his pledge to
honor the Hastert Rule but also approved use of a very rarely used rule in order to ram through a bill that an overwhelming majority of Republican colleagues and voters opposed.

Finally, as Lillis makes clear, without Democrat support, no attempt to oust Boehner can succeed at this time. Now, as before,
the main goal of the loudest protesters is to protect themselves
against their own votes to make Boehner Speaker in the first place.

Conservatives could descend en masse upon Boehner’s district to
persuade voters there that, no matter what Boehner may say or do from
now on, he must be defeated -- either by a genuine conservative
Republican or by a junior Democrat who can do little harm.

. "Lester Jackson,
Ph.D., a former college Political Science teacher, views mainstream
media suppression of the truth as essential to harmful judicial
activism. His recent articles are collected hereand here." ---------------------